Traudel Pichler

Traudel PICHLER was born on Octo­ber 13, 1941 in Mül­heim an der Ruhr (D). In 1948 the fam­i­ly emi­grat­ed to the USA, from where they returned in 1956. From 1960 to 1961 Traudel Pich­ler stud­ied graph­ics at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Karl­sruhe. In 1961 she moved to Vien­na and con­tin­ued her stud­ies at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts (Mas­ter School for Graph­ics and Paint­ing). Nach Abschluss ihres Studi­ums fand 1965 ihre erste Ausstel­lung in der Galerie der Öster­re­ichis­chen Staats­druck­erei in Wien statt. In the mid-1960s Traudel Pich­ler set­tled in Salzburg, from where she trav­elled to Italy (Rome schol­ar­ship 1969), Great Britain (British Coun­cil schol­ar­ship, Lon­don 1969) and Spain. Dur­ing these years the artist estab­lished her­self in the Aus­tri­an art scene. In 1969 Pich­ler fol­lowed an appoint­ment to the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na (teach­ing post for graph­ics and paint­ing). Traudel Pich­ler received the Low­er Aus­tri­an Paint­ing Pro­mo­tion Prize (1969), the Aus­tri­an State Prize for Paint­ing (1975) and the Low­er Aus­tri­an Cul­ture Prize (1983). In the same year, a large per­son­al exhi­bi­tion took place in the Low­er Aus­tri­an Doc­u­men­ta­tion Cen­tre in St. Pöl­ten. Traudel Pich­ler starb am 1. Juli 2002. 1978 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.